Analysis of TAO Has no Scale
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
TAO has no scale.
Here now and forever more.
Eternal presence.
Timed and yet timeless.
A numinous wonderment.
Open and yet always closed.
| Scheme | XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1100101 01010 10110 01100 100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
The TAO has no scale. It is that which is opened to itself and closed to all others.
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Written on February 06, 2023
Submitted by karlcfolkes on February 06, 2023
Modified by karlcfolkes on February 06, 2023
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